Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-13
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for Congress in the Norfolk district at the
last election, was 10 the city TO day TO see
about the Portsmouth postOffice, which Is
still held by one Of Gen. Mahone's appoint
ees. The Colonel says the cause of the
delay lies not in the fact that there are sew
eral applicants for the place. az there has
not been an Office filled in Virginia since
the advent of the democratic administration
for which several persons were not appil-
cants. He also says the report that Senator
Daniel had been informed by the postotlice
department that if he would recommend
man for the place that man would be APP
pointed at once, is incorrect, as the Senator
not only recommended a proper man Tor
the Office before his own election, but has
reneated that recommendation since.
Peonle from Richmond here to day say
that ex-Auditor Brown Allen, of that State,
one of Gen. Mahone's chief assistants in his
efforts to depreciate the value Of Virginia
coupons either has paid orintends topay with
those same deprecated coupons. the iudg
ment recently awarded against him by the
Supreme Court of Appeals of his State, for
allowing his brother-in-law excessive com.
missions for collecting State dues.
An influential Indiana democrat Topped
over in 1880 and in consequence was given
q lucrative office under the republican SEN
ate. He has three sons and daughter
all good republicans still in the de
partments here and though strong efforts
have been made to give their places to DEM
ocrats, these efforts have so far proved fu
tile. The county from which these people
came was democratic; at last falls election
it went republican.
It is said at the Interior Department that
the action of the Pacific Railroad Commits
sion is delayed because the republican mem
Der will not resign the speakershp OF the
Illinois House of Delegates, but that when
he shall, the commission can not accom-
plish in year as much with 500, 900 as the
regular clerks in the Office of the railroad
commissioner in that department could ia
three months, with $4,000.
Mr.. Aleck Wedderburn, formerly OF Alex.
andria, the secretary of the Changers Asso.
citation, has been appointed postmaster at
Grange Camp, on the Washington and Ohio
railroad, about midway between Falls
Church and Vienna.
Senator Riddleberger, before he left here,
told his friends hat he would make it his
business to seq that the republican county
ticket nominated in his county for next
months election should be defeated. The
ticket referred to has on it the names Of
several of The Senators personal enemies
now, though it is said that in the recent
past he had used what influence he had to
advance their interests.
Andrew King, native of Greenbiier
county now West Virginia, who has been
member Of both branches OF the Missouri
legislature, Judge of the Supreme Court OF
that State, and one Of its representatives in
Congress, having lost his fortune by going
on the bonds of his friends, came on here to
get an Office, and though we'll qualified for
any that could have bsen given him, even
in the department on justice, was unable to
get one above the grade subject TO the civil
filled By republicans, and could not get one
subject TO those rules because he was over
forty-fve years Of age.
The President. at the urgent and repeated
solicitation of the gushing Grady" has
TO be held at Atlanta next October.
A committee consisting of Messrs. Charles
Rhoades and Samuel Morris and represent
ing the Society Of Friends Of Pennsylvania,
Delware and New Jersey. waited Oh the
President to-day and presented an address
adopted by the Society at recent meeting
in Philadelphia in regard to the Canadian
fisheries question
Among the recent discharges at the gov
eminent printing Office are many women,
whose loss of employment and consequently
of pay has reduced them to sore straits.
Some of those who have attempted their
restoration have been shocked at the way
in which the women employed at the Office
referred to are talked about by those having
such places at their disposal. 1t is the same
way with the women in ell the other de-
partments Of the government The misera-
Bile stats to which some of them are reduced
By the loss of their places, TO which they are
constantly subject, is the strongest sort Of an
argument against the whole system of
female appointments.
w. B. Parnell, of Rappahannock county,
Va, who was in the city q few days and
stated that the democratic nominee for the
legislature in that county would either be
O'Bannon, the present delegate, or Gordon,
member Of the State executive committee,
says, on his return to the city to. day. that
Charles Green, esq, OF 1.-The Shades" an
other influential and popular young demo-
crat, will also be contestant for that honor.
The nomination is equivalent to election.
letter received here by Mr.. ]. A Smith from
Dinwiddie county, Virginia, where his father
resides, says that st the recent Mahone county
convention in that county fight took place be-
tween colorsd member of the legislature, A. W.
Harris, formerly of Alexandria and 8 white
member of his party, during which the for
mer drew pistol and the latter knife, but that
neither weapon was used.
Secretary Whitney has ordered the suppression
of the whole of the last edition of the Naeal Reg
lister, because it does not contain some trivial adj
ditions which were suggested to him after it was
printed. and though he had approved the copy"
before it was printed. The edition will be sold
as waste paper, and new edition be printed. I'm.
Gle Sam is rich.
Mechsnics here to-day from Alexandria say
that last night meeting was held on a street
corner in the First Ward at which Council tick
ct was nominated for that ward in opposition to
the ticket to be nomina ed by the democrats and
that some of the nominees accepted while others
declined.
A PATHETIC DEATH BED ScENE.-Bord-
ley F. Colhoun, aged twenty. eight years
the youngest son of Rear Admiral E. K.
Colhoun, U. S. n, died at his fathers resi-
dence in Washington. at six o'clock yester-
day afternoon, of pneumonia. When the